National Tide 1980

The last day of the year is not called "New Year's Eve" in Japan, but is called "Dahui Day".

This title comes from Japan’s native Shinto culture.

In Japanese, the sound of "氪" sounds like "月影", which means "the day when the moon is hidden", that is, the last day of each month.

The "Dahui Day" refers to the last day of the last month of the year, that is, December 31.

But despite this, the Japanese New Year is still very similar to the Chinese Spring Festival in customs.

Because before the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese completely followed Chinese traditions when celebrating the New Year.

The Japanese also celebrate the Spring Festival and use the lunar calendar.

Until after the Meiji Restoration, Japan learned from Europe, introduced various European systems, and introduced the Western Gregorian calendar.

From then on, the Japanese, who had completely changed their goal of worshiping foreigners, marked the Spring Festival as the "Old New Year" on the calendar, and began to celebrate New Year's Day in the Western calendar.

But more than a hundred years have passed, and to this day, Japan's New Year is still deeply influenced by Chinese culture, but there is no trace of Western civilization.

Just like the people who reunited with their families on New Year's Eve in the old days, waiting to compete for the first stick of incense in front of the Guandi Temple.

On December 31, 1986, the night of the Great Harvest Day, Japanese people not only had the auspicious New Year's Eve dinner, drank Tusu wine, and ate New Year's Eve soba noodles, but also went to visit the shrine after listening to the New Year's Eve bell.

Therefore, whether it is Asakusa or Shibuya in Tokyo, it is bound to be bustling.

You can definitely see the bustling scene of Sensoji Temple in Nakamise Street being crowded with people, and women wearing kimonos are also crowded among the crowds.

It is completely predictable that people waiting to worship in front of Meiji Shrine will be crowded, and the bells of major temples and shrines will always ring.

Even to make it easier for citizens to visit shrines, Tokyo’s tram lines will run all night long to provide services to worshipers.

This is probably what those old devils who clamored for "Leaving Asia and Joining Europe" and advocating "total Westernization" did not expect. Thinking about it, it is really ironic.

As for whether the gods and Buddhas in these shrines are efficacious or not? Who will you bless? How many people can really get what they want?

That is a more mysterious question...

The last day of the year is undoubtedly the busiest day for Japan's entertainment industry as various New Year's Eve programs are being prepared.

Especially for popular singers, it is very likely that they will go back and forth between NHK's Kohaku Uta Music Festival venue and TBS's studio on this day.

Even so, the singer, who has been shortlisted for two TV stations' blockbuster programs, is still busy and happy.

Take Teresa Teng, for example, although she is a foreigner, as the most popular enka star in Japan, she is also very busy at various TV stations and various venues.

Among the singles released this year, the song that naturally took her to the limelight was "Toki no Flow". This ballad composed for her by her old partners Toyohisa Araki, Tsuyoshi Miki, and Makoto Kawaguchi is simply "going crazy" this year.

Not only did she win the Limited Broadcast Award, she was nominated for the Record Award, and she will also perform at the Red and White Song Gala tonight.

In Japan, the status of the Red and White Song Festival is equivalent to the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in mainland China.

And just like the Spring Festival Gala, famous foreign singers will also be invited to the Red and White Song Festival.

If you can appear on the Kohaku Song Festival, even if you don't win any music-related awards, it can completely prove that a singer is very popular in Japan.

So even if she was rushing to the event, Teresa Teng was full of joy and dressed up carefully.

The backstage of the NHK Concert Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo, was chaotic and orderly. During the final rehearsal at noon, Teresa Teng walked through the corridor under the guidance of the staff.

On the way, she accidentally met Hiroshi Itsuki, a senior member of the Japanese enka school. She stopped politely and bowed to him to say hello, "Hello Itsuki-san."

The two are not strangers and have a pretty good relationship.

You know, Hiroshi Itsuki is not only the Japanese male singer who has collaborated most with Teresa Teng, but the key is that the two just collaborated on a hit song "Reunion After Farewell" last year.

So Hiroshi Ohgi nodded, his attitude was quite kind, and he not only smiled and sent his blessing, "Come on, Teresa."

He also whispered comfortingly, "No matter what the selection results are over at TBS, don't be discouraged. No matter what happens, you won't leave empty-handed. Even if there is no grand prize, there is still a gold medal to win."

This is by no means malicious. In the whole matter, Hiroshi Itsuki was one of the people who was not kept in the dark at all, and had no idea that someone was working on Teresa Teng's behalf regarding the awards.

Moreover, he also knows a lot about the shady behind-the-scenes of awards in the industry. He is very aware of the lousy nature of the judges on the Record Awards Committee, so it is not surprising that he would say such a thing.

What's more, so far, we have not yet received the results of the award selection from Ning Weimin. Even Teresa Teng herself is somewhat uneasy and unsure about the results of the award selection.

Although she is extremely smart, she knows that no news may be the best news.

But because we are in the middle of the game, we still find it hard to let go. We can completely relax and not be sure of victory at all.

This is called caring and chaos.

Therefore, Teresa Teng could only feel warm in her heart for Ohgi Hiroshi's relief, and felt that he was graceful, and she sincerely thanked him.

"Thank you, Itsuki-san."

As soon as the noon rehearsal of the Red and White Song Festival ended, Teresa Teng rushed to the Record Awards at the Nippon Budokan in Chiyoda Ward.

Compared to the Red and White Song Festival, the atmosphere at the Record Awards was much more relaxed.

The participating singers often treat the venue as a social occasion. Those who are familiar with each other but not familiar with each other can only be introduced by someone, and they all gather together to chat.

Under such circumstances, Teresa Teng, who was guided by two staff members, happened to meet Akina Nakamori who walked in surrounded by two staff members.

The two people who had not met at the NHK Concert Hall had an unexpected encounter here.

Needless to say, as a junior, Akina Nakamori had to take the initiative to say hello, "Good evening, Miss Teresa, you are here."

Teresa Teng responded with a smile, "Good evening. Miss Akina, you are here too."

Although it is well known that the Japanese entertainment industry is a plastic industry, the courtesy between the two people is not completely hypocritical.

After all, after Teresa Teng won the Limited Broadcast Award this year, she also received a "favour" from Akina Nakamori.

Speaking of this "noodle incident" is quite interesting.

At that time, after the Limited Broadcasting Awards, there was a program called "11PM" that broadcast the celebration party of the award-winning singer.

Teresa Teng had been busy that whole day without eating, and she was so hungry that her chest pressed against her back.

Her brokerage assistant is not very good either. The quality of employees in a small company like Taurus Palace is not very good. They can’t even buy a bowl of noodles when they go out.

Thanks to Akina Nakamori who gave Teresa Teng a bowl of noodles bought for her by her agent, Teresa Teng was saved from famine.

So after this incident, whenever she was interviewed by Japanese media, Teresa Teng would praise Nakamori Akina a few words and say, "Ms. Akina is such a nice person."

Teresa Teng, who had always had a deep prejudice against Japanese people and rarely made friends with Japanese artists, regarded Akina Nakamori as a good person just because of such a trivial matter.

Needless to say, when the two met at this time, they naturally wanted to have a good chat.

But that's it. After all, they are competitors for this year's Grand Prize, and they belong to different categories: the singing school and the idol school. Just express your courtesy politely and that's it.

Teresa Teng has long passed the age of pure innocence, and she will not hesitate when it comes to her own core interests.

Although in this current situation, there is a possibility that she can completely end Nakamori Akina's second consecutive championship.

But she doesn't see anything wrong with running the awards.

To put it bluntly, she had been teased by the Record Awards several times for her innocence in the past.

This is not the first time that she has been nominated but not won an award. The Record Awards Committee has long ago stabbed her with shameless means.

To be fair, she should have received the grand prize last year.

If the Record Awards hadn't invited her due to public pressure, and Ning Weimin had also put in a lot of effort behind the scenes, she had some hope, and felt that maybe she could really "get something that should have been hers with her own hands." ".

She really may not be willing to come.

What's more, isn't Kenyin, the agency behind Akina Nakamori, also spending money on prizes?

This is not a secret, everyone is the same, and she has nothing to feel guilty about.

If she was really ashamed, she could only feel ashamed that her side was too weak and left empty-handed.

In short, the biggest highlight tonight is to see how Ning Weimin's operational capabilities are and whether she can win the unprecedented highest award at the Record Awards and achieve the double crown of the Limited Broadcast Award and the Record Award.

In the evening, at seven o'clock, the grand prize started as scheduled.

The best new artist was awarded to the youth team, and the best album was awarded to Matsuda Seiko's "SUPREME"... Time slowly moved forward, one award after another was announced, and groups of singers performed on the stage.

The singers and the audience were sitting together. From time to time, some singers left the table, and some came back after a while - this was to attend the Red and White Song Festival.

Finally, the decisive moment came.

It’s finally time to announce the most eye-catching award of the year, the Record Awards.

"Then, it's finally time to announce this year's annual awards..."

As soon as the host said these words, shouts of "Mingcai Jiang!" and "Mingcai!" rang out in the venue.

It's not that this is what everyone expects. Everyone thinks that Akina Nakamori is the one who can really win the grand prize.

The key point is that fans of idol stars definitely have the advantage of being younger and are not afraid to declare their pursuit of idols.

Although there are many fans of the entertainment stars, they are of different age groups.

Among those in their thirties and above, no matter how much they like it, there are really not many people who have the nerve to yell about it.

The host opened the card in his hand and looked obviously startled when he saw the name on it, but he quickly returned to normal with his professionalism.

"The winner of the 28th Record Awards is——"

"Theresa Deng, "Time of the Current". Congratulations!"

As these words fell, the entire venue burst into overwhelming applause and cheers. The camera cut to Teresa Teng's seat at the right time to capture her reaction.

When Teresa Teng heard her name announced by the host, Teresa Teng was obviously stunned for two or three seconds.

When he came back to his senses, tears came to his eyes involuntarily, but a smile of accomplishment also bloomed.

The audience and singers sitting around congratulated her one after another, and "congratulations" came back to her thoughts.

She took a deep breath, held back her tears, stood up amidst the encouragement of everyone, bowed to everyone she passed along the way, and walked towards the stage.

When she was teased again and again by the Record Awards in recent years, no one thought she could take home the top prize of this award.

When the passport scandal hit, no one thought that she could return to Japan, become popular again, and even start an unparalleled model in the Japanese music scene.

Even though she won three consecutive Limited Broadcast Awards this year and became popular, no one thought that she could continue to create such a huge miracle in the music industry in the same year, completely stealing the limelight of all Japanese singers.

There was once a little girl who sang Huangmei tune. She helped her parents support her family by selling her songs when she was young. She actually won the unprecedented double crown in the Japanese music industry, the Limited Broadcasting Awards and the Record Awards, and she did it as a foreign artist. .

This made her someone who would soon go down in recording history.

Nothing could be more moving and uplifting than this.

On this New Year's Eve, everyone in the venue and all the viewers watching the live broadcast of the Record Awards on TV witnessed the birth of such a legend.

Not only Japanese, but also audiences from Hong Kong and Macao.

You know, Hong Kong City's wireless TV station will broadcast the award-winning event live every New Year's Eve.

Teresa Teng walked onto the stage step by step and took the heavy trophy.

Needless to say, the next step is the acceptance speech and singing performance!

But what was even more unexpected was that after finishing her acceptance speech in Japanese, Teresa Teng actually started speaking Chinese when the closing music played.

This move simply confused the on-site director, and the director couldn't help but be furious. If it was not handled well, it would be a performance accident.

But there is no way, now Teresa has become the new Queen of Record Awards, even if it is a sudden impulsive move, they can only recognize it.

"What a bastard. How can you say something on a live broadcast that the entire Japanese audience can't understand?"

"That's right, there's no communication! It's really difficult!"

"It's all the blame on the Hong Kong media. Teresa must have done this because they broadcast it! Just don't let the Hong Kong media broadcast it next time!"

But to be honest, Hong Kong City TVB is unjustly taking the blame, because they also have some issues that they don't understand and are secretly muttering about it in private.

"Hey, Miss Deng, what's going on? What do you mean? Just a few words in Cantonese, say hello and tell me the song title and that's it? This is too perfunctory..."

"That's right, everyone knows that we are going to broadcast it. Why do we have to speak Mandarin on the spot? Our audience is not the people of Treasure Island? Is this Miss Deng so happy that her brain is showing off? Is there any mistake..."

"I don't know. Listen, who is the noble person that Teresa is sincerely grateful to? Who is that noble person? I only care about you. The Chinese title of this song seems to have a special meaning. Could it be that she is in love again? What?" (End of this chapter)